President Trump’s indicted former campaign manager just lost his disastrous civil lawsuit against Special Counsel Mueller when a DC federal judge dismissed the case. (order embedded below)

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted by the Special Counsel’s office in two federal courts on felony charges of being the secret agent of a foreign power under the FARA law, money laundering, lobbying violations, mortgage fraud and tax charges.

In January, Manafort’s team filed a legal ‘hail mary pass’ in civil court, asking the same federal judge overseeing the DC criminal case to toss Mueller’s probe because he was charged with crimes outside the immediate scope of the 2016 election. Federal judge Berman ruled against Manafort’s lawsuit, saying that a civil court isn’t the place to fight criminal charges against the Department of Justice.

Manafort’s own lawyers withdrew most of his claims after prosecutors filed their responses, probably because, in federal court, a frivolous civil litigation claim can quickly land the plaintiff and client in financial penalties.

So the judge mockingly ruled that Manafort had little or nothing left to challenge about Special Counsel Mueller’s appointment because he has the opportunity to fight the criminal court charges in criminal court.

Last summer, President Trump infamously declared that his personal finances or those of his associates were a “red line” that Special Counsel Mueller should not cross.

Mueller crossed that “red line” in both December and last month by raiding Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.